日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 The Shoemaker `GOOD DAY! said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance: `Good day! `You a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Wine-shop A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 The Preparation WHEN the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 The Night Shadows Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooters Hill. He wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 BOOK THE FIRST RECALLED TO LIFE CHAPTER 1 The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Ligh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 27 Hercule Poirot sat in a big armchair. The wall lights had been turned out. Only a rose-shaded lamp shed its glow on the figure in the armchair. There seemed something symbolic about it - he alone in the light - and the other three, Sir Charles, Mr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 26 Poirot did not have quite the uninterrupted twenty-four hours for which he had stipulated. At twenty minutes past eleven on the following morning Egg walked in unannounced. To her amazement she found the great detective engaged in building card ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 25 Before catching their train Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite had had a brief interview with Miss Lyndon, the late Sir Bartholomew Stranges secretary. Miss Lyndon had been very willing to help, but had had nothing of important to tell them. Mrs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 24 At once an excited discussion sprang up. An ABC was produced. It was decided that an early train would be better than going by car. At last, said Sir Charles, were going to get that particular part of the mystery cleared up. What do you think of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 23 Sitting in a comfortable armchair in his slightly florid suite at the Ritz, Hercule Poirot listened. Egg was perched on the arm of a chair, Sir Charles stood in front of the fireplace, Mr. Satterthwaite sat a little farther away observing the grou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 22 At the office of Messrs. Speier Ross, Mr. Satterthwaite asked for Mr. Oliver Manders and sent in his card. Presently he was ushered into a small room, where Oliver was sitting at a writing-table. The young man got up and shook hands. Good of you t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 21 Five Upper Cathcart Road, Tooting, seemed an incongruous home for a satiric playwright. The room into which Sir Charles was shown had walls of a rather drab oatmeal colour with a frieze of laburnum round the top. The curtains were of rose-coloured... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 20 Now, are you a friend or are you a sleuth? I simply must know. Miss Sutcliffe flashed a pair of mocking eyes as she spoke. She was sitting in a straight-backed chair, her grey hair becomingly arranged, her legs were crossed and Mr. Satterthwaite a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 19 Egg had not yet finished her programme for the day. Her next move was to St. Johns House, in which building the Dacres had a flat. There were sumptuous window boxes and uniformed porters of such magnificence that they looked like foreign generals.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 18 The showrooms of Ambrosine, Ltd., were very pure in appearance. The walls were a shade just off white - the thick pile carpet was son neutral as to be almost colourless - so was the upholstery. Chromium gleamed here and there, and on one wall was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 17 So, you see, the fish has risen, said Hercule Poirot. Mr. Satterthwaite, who had been looking at the door which had just closed behind the other two, gave a start as he turned to Poirot. The latter was smiling with a hint of mockery. Yes, yes, do... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 16 Good, said Poirot. We are colleagues. Eh bien, you will put me, if you please, au courant of the situation. He listened with close attention whilst Mr. Satterthwaite outlined the steps they had taken since returning to England. Mr. Satterthwaite w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 15 Frankly, said Sir Charles, are we any forrader? It was a council of war. Sir Charles, Mr. Satterthwaite and Egg Lytton Gore were sitting in the Ship-room. A fire burned in the grate, and outside an equinoctial gale was howling. Mr. Satterthwaite a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 14 Mr. Satterthwaite had come down to Crows Nest with Sir Charles. Whilst his host and Egg Lytton Gore were visiting Mrs. Babbington, Mr. Satterthwaite was having tea with Lady Mary. Lady Mary liked Mr. Satterthwaite. For all her gentleness of manner... 阅读全文>>